It Lies Within
BY Moonraker One
CHAPTER TWO - A Plan Executed
Bibidi looked down on the image of Pan in the crystal ball with glee. It had been entirely too long since one of his plans were this close to fruition after this much time of waiting. The sensation of feeling that all of his hopes and research were about to be fulfilled was just amazing. After all these years of waiting and all of this time spent enhancing beings only to see their power levels far inferior to Majin Buu's. It was kind of like ecstasy just to be here in the moment of realization. Yes, he thought. Now is the time that everything we've always worked for comes to life.
You see, one thing Bibidi believed in was that his first experiment—even one as perfect as his Buu experiment—should never be the one that you are remembered for. With this plan of Tetra-Ki, he was not only going to be known in this plane of reality, he was going to rule all the way up to Planet Velir, the royal sovereign planet of the gods. This was indeed his moment, his vision. Buu, his first attempt at creating life, went without a hitch. From it he learned that if you aren't strict enough about what your being's personality is, you will end up with something far different than you expected. He created Majin Buu with only the bare minimum for hopes, and ended up with something whose flaws made him better than the original idea. Bibidi knew who he was, he knew who his creations were, and most importantly, he knew the exact distance to keep them from you.
This was so much different. With Majin Buu, he could control what went in even if he couldn't control what went out. When you give greater existence to a being already living—as opposed to creating a being with life—you don't already have that "pre-knowledge" as to who they are and what their personality is. He'd done this before, and had it explode in his face as a complete failure. He had to be careful here, or else millennia of waiting could be destroyed in a single instant.
"Pan!" Goku yelled. "Come on out! It's time for your daily lesson in KI use!"
Pan smiled as she dashed out the door. "Coming, grandpa!" She sweetly replied.
Wham. She was not known for sudden halts, so when she stopped in midstep, halfway out the door, Goku was a bit concerned. He just had a feeling that something was a tad awry.
"So, master Bibidi," Majin Rilldo said to the wizard. "How long is it going to be before she is on our side?"
Bibidi did not take his concentration off of his crystal ball. "Rilldo," he replied, "The process is quite delicate. I must first lift her current storage of Ki off of her inner spirit, so that I may access her inner Tetra-Ki. Once I do that, the being must be surrounded by a protective barrier so the planet is not vaporized by the massive transference of energy."
Rilldo scratched his head in confusion; he hated when his master spoke in ways he didn't understand. "Ah," he simply responded.
"Pan?" Goku asked in a tone that indicated he was beginning to get scared. "Is something wrong?"
Pan began to mildly shake. "It's…something in me," she hesitantly replied. "Something deep…I can feel it coming up like a well of energy."
Goku somehow understood; he'd seen many cases like this one, or so he thought. "Pan," he said, gathering his words slowly. "I think I've seen this before. You should be fine." If there was a time that he was more wrong, would someone please speak up and tell me.
Bibidi was waving his calm, experienced hands over the crystal ball; even at his age, he could feel her inner power as it welled up like a balloon. "Ka tekra nefola," he began uttering. "Fa loona sebina kasanak. Petro Nefro BA BADA PAPA!"
Upon the screeching of the last magic words, the ball began to glow very brightly a shade of red. On Earth, Pan and Goku were two inches apart, Goku looking expectantly on his granddaughter, hoping for her to quickly snap to. Just then, a bright purple flash emitted from Pan like a bad energy release, sending Goku sailing into a far tree at the edge of the yard. From this point Gohan looked in terror as his daughter was engulfed by a large black field of light and red bolts of evil power surged through every inch of her form. Nerves were stretched to painful lengths, veins expanded to allow more blood flow, surges of pure, raw energy ripped through the young girl as if she was a piece of paper in a sand storm, and caused her to yell out shrieks of unrivaled pain and power. All at once and in painful spurts, tissue and organs began to rise and expand, causing her entire form to increase in size, just as if she was aging ten years in a matter of seconds. As she shrieked, her voice becoming audibly more mature and evil, her increase in size tore through all clothes instantly, leaving her surging skin exposed. Gohan tried to leap into the field of darkness surrounding his daughter, but he almost vaporized himself in the process.
"PAAAAAANNNNN!" He screamed, almost loud enough to drown out the roar of pure energy surging upward.
And, almost as abruptly as it began, it ended. The dark field let up, the energy died down from a storm to single bolts surging off of skin. She, who was five feet off the grass, was dropped to the ground, face first in the light green grass. What they all noticed about her, not only did she now have the body of a seventeen year old Pan, she also had a power level that had risen dramatically. Her ki was now at the level that Kid Buu's was shortly after transformation. Even with this ungodly display, Goku somehow knew the mighty energy storm was only the tip of the iceberg of her ki.
Lifting her five-foot-ten naked body off the ground, she looked at her grandfather with nothing but evil contempt in her now teenage eyes. "You still wanna try with that lesson?" She asked, laughing wickedly. Goku closed his eyes for a moment. Great gods in heaven, he thought. We'll need you if her power's as high as I think.
